The weekly Union times. [volume] (Union C.H., South Carolina) 1871-1894, 1887-05-13

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Our Abbeville contemporary promul.
gated the sapicnt and profound suggestion
that 1t will be we'll to arm all prisoners
charged with capital crimes with Winches-
ter rifles as a method cf preventing lynch
ing. With equal sapiency and profuudity
our charleston cotemporary accepts the
suggestion as good one and argues in its
favor. AL men who help to lynch crimi-
nails are murderers, and should be shot but
as they are towards, tho fact that the per-
sons to be lyncbed are armed and in shoot
ing condition would keep the lynchers back
and prevent mischief.
We are not told what would become of
the sheriff and jaier in the event of lynch
ing raid of the ordinary kind, but it is easy
to imagine that they would be in a painful
position, ifthe reasoning and assumption of
our Charleston cotomporary would hold
good. The lynchers, being towards, would
remain outside the Jail and would therefore
be safe: Only the officers would be in jeo-
pardy with armed prisoners having di,
rect interest in their early and painless
decease inside and armed lynchors outside
clamoring for vengeance for the arming of
the priosucrs. With the rule suggested
by our contemporaries the Office of sheriff
would be divested of the monotony that
sometimes surrounds i. but it would not like
~ be regarded as desirable. Dodging Dimbly
about the corridor of a Jail with propelled
buckshot entering the doors and windows
aud rifle bullets emerging in rapid success
sion from the cells would be an interesting
-we may say cxcitiug-amusemcnt, but it
would not be wholesomc.--Gr GrcenviUc Neus
The LIQUOR QUEsrIoN.-Seneca, Pick
ems Co., May 3.-Scncca is about to be
badly stirred up. Three members of the
town council elected in March were known
to be pronounced wet men, while tn, in
! tendant and tne warden are just the OPP
posite but irt-.. dis,i.o.ly LooI.-oJ that
there was no issue on the liquor question
at ALL The ticket was elected as tho work.
ingman's ticket, and great many men
who are known as ant-liquor men were in
fuenced thereby to vote it, Now they
begin to show the stuff out Of which they
are made. Yesterday application was
made by two men for barroom license.
The position taken by the liquor men
is that when the Statute prohibiting the
sale of liquors iu Oconcc County was re-
pealed it carried with it the Seneca bill.
The three liquor men in the council passed
an ordinance granting license, but Inten-
dant NJ. N. Sitton and r. B. Hayes, who
is also clerk of council, refused to sign the
ordinance. These gentlemen have the
moral support Of most of the property
holders and nearly all Of those known as
the best people, white and colored. The
liquor men may expect, if they 90 into
the fight, that the ants arc not going to
give up till they win or are defeated in the
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ALIEN LANDLoRDIsM.-A bill sim liar
to the Alien Landlords bill, passed at the
recent session of Congress, is pending in
the Illinois Legislature. 1t provides that
hereafter aliens shall not be allowed to
buy land in the State until they shall have
declared their intention to become citizens
that unless they shall become citizens
within six years their lands shall revert to
the State, and that all aliens now holding
lands in Illinois must become citizens
within three years. This bill is aimed at
one William Scul'y, an Orangeman who
is said to have initiated in Illinois the
practices that have made English land
lords objects OF hatred in Ireland. Soul
| ly owns in the State from $4,000 to 100,
600 acres, which are titled by wretchcd
tenants upon almost hopeless terms. The
leases are said to contain some of the
worst features Of the Irish lease in use ten
years ago. Scully also owns about 10O,-
600 acres in Kansas. He lives in Lon
don. The people of Illinois appear to
have determined that he must either sell
out or become citizen. for it is predicted
that the pending bill will surely become a
law.
SAVED HIS LIrE.-Alr. ID. /. Wilcoxson, Of
Horse Cave, Ky, says he was, for many years,
bodily afflicted with Phthisic, also Diabetes; the
pains were almost uncomfortable and would some
times almost throw him into sonvulsions. He
lfial Elact rio a..l l;.e